I have managed this plantation for seventeen years. You want to...

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I have managed this plantation for seventeen years. You want to know what managing a plantation means? It means you know everybody's secrets and you are the only one who does not get to have one.

My name is Silas Graves. I was born here. My mother was born here. Her mother was born here, though she never talked about that part. She just said the land remembers and that is why you do not ask it questions you do not want answered. The plantation is Oakhaven. It sits on the Mississippi river about twenty miles south of New Orleans. From the road it looks respectable. White columns, a wide...

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